DRC natural resources press review of Wednesday, September 11, 2013

"Oil Boom in the DRC: the duty of transparency," the Potentiel newspaper headlines that, according to estimates issued, including the Minister of Hydrocarbons, announces that the prospect of an explosion of the Congolese oil production profile in 2014. 25 000 barrels / day, could reach in the short term 225,000 barrels / day. The development of deposits Albertine Graben in the east and the area of ​​common interest with Angola on the continental shelf could against the current 325 million, report to the Treasury $ 3.5 billion the year! Opportunities that require sanitation sector. For the newspaper, it's time to think about how to manage this new opportunity offered to the nation. Also in the oil sector, the Observateur newspaper reports that the vice president of the CSU parliamentary group CDU / Bundestag majority in the Bundestag, the German parliament, Dr. Christian Ruck has just launched a new motion in the Bundestag, the German parliament for the protection of Virunga National Park. The newspaper said that Mr Christian Ruck conducted in the month of August 2013 a visit to Democratic Republic of Congo, where he went to report the destruction of the park considered World Heritage by UNESCO. On another topic, Radio Okapi informs a hippo killed twenty-two people in the space of two months on the Kasai River in the city of Mangayi, located 140 kilometers north of the Idiofa Bandundu. This animal, called "Barcelona" operates Panu city Nganda 417, Yuki, Piopio, Tanga Mikolo and the city of Mangayi, as curator of the Congolese Institute for the Conservation of Nature (ICCN) to Mangayi in mission Idiofa center. "Barcelona" generally uses a single procedure: attack canoes to overthrow. Then, hippo attacks passengers become vulnerable in the water. These end up being dismembered, according to the sinners of the Kasai River. For its part, the Forum des As newspaper reports that the DRC is considering the establishment of an agricultural bank and notes that the Congolese government has decided to conduct a study on the establishment of an agricultural bank. He entrusted this mission to Rabobank, the Netherlands. Thus the bank has sent experts to contact industry players. Including the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The lengthy hearing the minister granted yesterday Tuesday, September 10 the delegation of Rabobank, led by Gerard Van Kempel, some broad outlines are clear. DRC needs a really rural bank, but not to the city. She did not need a bank politicians and the private sector is involved. That bank also involves farmers' organizations. It takes into account existing networks, micro-finance and co-operative savings and credit.